352: Jenny Sansouci - Healing With Cannabis, CBD, & Mushrooms
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Jenny Sansouci (IG: @jennysansouci) is the author of The Rebel's Apothecary: A Practical Guide to the Healing Magic of Cannabis, CBD, and Mushrooms.
She's a certified health coach and creator of the wellness blog Healthy Crush, where she's been writing since 2008.
Jenny is a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and has been trained by functional medicine doctor Frank Lipman, MD in New York City.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Jenny’s dad getting diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer
- Researching cannabis & medicinal mushrooms for cancer
- Cannabis oil can be used to help relieve the side effects of chemotherapy
- Cannabis has always been used as a medicine
- The difference between hemp & marijuana
- What are turpenes?
- CBD isolate is different than a full spectrum CBD product
- The benefits of CBD
- How skin receptors interact with cannabis molecules
- If you are new to CBD, start with a tincture
- Microdosing with THC
- Medicinal mushrooms for everyday use
- The benefits of culinary mushrooms: shiitake, lion’s mane, & maitake
- What does dual extracted mean?
- What are the active compounds in medicinal mushrooms?
- Chaga & reishi are immune balancing mushrooms
- Button, cremini & portabellas are the same species of mushroom
- Medicinal mushrooms vs. psychedelic magic mushrooms
- Research shows psilocybin has positive benefits for mental health & depression
- Don’t experiment with psychedelics on your own, work with a trained guide
- Jenny’s daily cannabis & medicinal mushroom routine
- Jenny’s dad's pancreatic cancer update
- AHCC supplementation
- How full extract cannabis oil (aka Rick Simpson oil) helps with nausea & appetite
- Before buying CBD products review third party lab tests
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| 0:00.0 | The most common ways that people are using it are for anxiety, for sleep and for pain. |
| 0:08.1 | Those are probably the top three. People use it also for mood, for inflammation, but pain and anxiety are two of the top ones and those actually lead to the sleep. |
| 0:18.0 | So like I said, CBD isn't a sedative on its own, so people take it it usually helps with whatever is |
| 0:24.5 | keeping them from sleeping and a lot of times that's pain or anxiety. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 352. |
| 0:38.0 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman |
| 0:40.0 | and we are here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:43.0 | Each week we will bring you inspiring and informative conversations about health and |
| 0:46.6 | wellness, covering topics of nutrition, lifestyle, fitness, mindset, and so much more. |
| 0:52.4 | And this week we're chatting with Jenny Sansuci, |
| 0:54.8 | she's the author of the Rebel's apothecary, |
| 0:57.2 | a practical guide to the healing magic of cannabis, |
| 1:00.1 | CBD, and mushrooms. |
| 1:01.7 | She's a certified health coach and creator of the wellness blog Healthy Crush |
| 1:05.4 | where she's been writing since 2008 |
| 1:07.8 | Jenny is the graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and has been trained by functional medicine Dr Frank Littman in New York City. |
| 1:15.8 | And Frank is actually a previous guest to the show. |
| 1:18.8 | And over the years we've covered medicinal mushrooms quite a bit, but cannabis is a totally new topic for |
| 1:24.4 | the show. It was really fun to read Jenny's book and research for this interview and |
| 1:28.6 | we had a great conversation. And Jenny has such a personal connection to this topic because her father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and this got her digging into the research and learning more about cannabis and additional mushrooms and how they could help him. |
| 1:45.2 | And it ends up that in the end he ended up combining these with a conventional treatment plan |
| 1:50.6 | for cancer and she shares that story and gets into so much great |
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